Psystar Starts Selling Mac Clones With Snow Leopard
Mac clone maker Psystar isn't waiting for a federal djudge to give it the green light to sell systems with Apple 's new Snow Leopard operating system, according to the company's Web site.
"We support Snow Leopard on all new Psystar machines and we're already taking orders for computers with the latest OS from Apple [that] will begin to ship next week," said Psystar in an anonymous posting on its company blog Monday.
Psystar's order page lists Snow Leopard as a $69.99 optional upgrade from the default Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard. The Snow Leopard upgrade, however, also includes a copy of Apple's iLife and iWork creative and productivity suites.
But at the same time, the Florida-based maker of Mac clones warned existing customers not to try upgrading their generic Intel-based computers to Snow Leopard on their own. Doing so, said Psystar "may cause harm to your computer."
The company failed to say why users shouldn't upgrade to Snow Leopard, or provide any guidance on how, or even whether, specific systems can be updated to Mac OS X 10.6. "We will be releasing information on upgrading your Psystar computer to OS X Snow Leopard soon," said the blog. "The ability to do so may depend on when your system was purchased, and upgrade costs may vary."
A week ago, Psystar sued Apple a second time , accusing it of illegally tying Snow Leopard to its hardware. In the lawsuit, Psystar also asked a Florida federal judge to rule that it has the right to purchase copies of Snow Leopard on the open market and use them to install Mac OS X 10.6 on the machines it sells.
The antitrust angle in the new lawsuit is a repeat of Psystar's strategy of more than a year ago, when it accused Apple of violating the Sherman and Clayton Acts. A California federal judge tossed out Psystar's claims last November.
In its Aug. 26 filing in Florida, Psystar said that the situation with Snow Leopard is completely different from the already-ongoing case in California.
Not surprisingly, Apple disagreed. In its own filing Monday, Apple argued that the two cases are so similar that either they should be consolidated, or the newest lawsuit should be thrown out. "Psystar should not be allowed to re-assert in a new action the antitrust claims that this Court dismissed and that Psystar chose not to amend," read Apple's latest filing to the California court. "Nor should Psystar be permitted to simultaneously litigate, in another forum, the same subject matter pending in this case and before this Court."
Apple's lawyers called Psystar's action "a clear example of forum-shopping at its worst," and cast it as another delaying tactic by the clone maker. "Psystar should not be allowed to delay resolution of the disputes between Apple and Psystar yet again through procedural tactics of filing yet another action in Florida, in addition to its prior tactic of filing for bankruptcy in Florida," Apple said.
Psystar filed for bankruptcy in late May, but reversed itself two months later after it was unable to reach a payment plan with its legal team at the time. A mid-June decision -- that the case should continue, even though Psystar had filed for bankruptcy -- also played a part.
Apple and Psystar have been waging legal war since July 2008, when Apple sued Psystar over copyright infringement and software licensing charges. The case is slated to go to jury trial on Jan. 11, 2010.
Apple has not yet officially responded to last week's lawsuit filed by Psystar in Florida.
Nokia’s $800 Netbook Costs Too Much
The Nokia Booklet 3G netbook may have some clever innovations, including mobile broadband and a 12-hour battery, but its steep $816 price tag will drive customers away.
There's little doubt that netbook sales are booming. According to market researcher DisplaySearch, the mini-note PC (netbook) market in 2Q 2009 grew 40 percent over Q1, nearly double the growth rate of larger notebooks.
Obviously, consumers have taken to netbooks in a big way, and they may fall in love the look of the Booklet 3G, with its sleek aluminum chassis and 10-inch high resolution display. But when they see the Nokia's price tag, they'll opt for a more pedestrian Acer, Asus, HP, or Samsung netbook, all of which are priced between $350 and $500.
The Booklet's key specs are fairly average as netbooks go: A 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor, 1GB of memory, and a 120GB hard drive. That's on par with netbooks that cost hundreds of dollars less.
You can sum up the netbook's allure in two words: small and cheap. The Booklet 3G may be small, but it's no bargain. In fact, its price matches that of far more powerful notebooks. Example: The HP Official Store sells a Pavilion dv7t notebook with a 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 CPU, a 17.3-inch display (1600 by 900 pixels), 2GB of memory, and a 250GB hard drive for $800.
Now, I realize this may be an apples-to-oranges comparison, and that consumers shopping for a netbook may not want a full-size system like the Pavilion dv7t. But they will compare prices as they browse the netbook lineup at the local big box, and they'll wonder why the Booklet is priced so high.
Naturally, wireless carrier subsidizes will whittle down the Booklet's price, but Nokia's netbook will likely still cost more than competing mini-notes. Even if it runs $400 to $500 with a two-year mobile broadband contact, other subsidized portables will go for less than $200. In fact, some carriers like Verizon have begun offering free netbooks to new subscribers.
The Nokia Booklet 3G may be superior to its competitors, but in the small-and-cheap world of netbooks, being the premium choice may prove a liability
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Not long ago, the Dell and Apple notebook computers and equipment produced by the Sony hp pb995a battery problems with the reported poor people again aware of the dangers posed by the battery.
Ever since scientists discovered the chemical energy into electrical energy method, and the chemical raw materials can be packed into a small container to bring the user to reduce the size of the battery and increase battery capacity and the demand for extended battery life has been interruption. However, an increasing number of chemical energy into an increasingly smaller containers to meet the demand is not the best way to extend the battery life also needs a better way to achieve.
In this way the batteries in need of special chemical materials, lithium-ion hp pb994a battery is the battery in the development of a breakthrough, at present, lithium-ion batteries have been widely used in notebook computers and mobile phone batteries. Lithium-ion batteries can store very high energy, while not the traditional nickel-metal hydride battery cell "memory effect." In addition, it can be at work to maintain a stable voltage output, maintenance is simple, and in the storage process will not lose too much power.
But there is no perfect things, the weaknesses of lithium-ion battery is its charge and discharge process is not very stable. Lithium-ion batteries require special safety circuit to ensure it is charged or discharged in the course of not over-charging or over-discharge, or else they might have because of battery overheating have disastrous consequences. Scheduling the design and the battery casing pressure on the weak point in the hp pb992a battery when internal pressure is too large split in order to prevent the occurrence of the explosion. But even so, open the battery on the part of the gap will lead to burning out the battery materials.
This is, perhaps, the recent Dell laptop battery explosions cause of the incident, all users do not want this to happen in the conference room (or anywhere else), but it does happen.
Regardless of how we use, the battery is quite a modern safe. But for portable devices, battery life has not stopped demand. This will also allow scientists have been experimenting with new materials of the hybrid battery.
Many customers want their laptops to work with the hp pavilion zv6000 battery throughout the day, but I think this kind of hope that customers are being misled, and I have always believed that the advantages of the notebook is its portability, rather than a longer life time, because in the current, longer life may be at the expense of some of the cost of security.
There is no denying that I did not represent the views of all notebook users, and because I do not train or aircraft in the use of laptop computers, I can not therefore be regarded as a typical notebook computer users. Now, a growing number of transportation equipment to provide for the external laptop power socket, but not sufficient as long as the use of the full functionality of notebook computers, lithium-ion hp hstnn-lb31 battery life will be longer than the nominal number. So perhaps now need to tell the user, you can throw away the notebook's built-in battery.
AQSIQ said must be on guard against overheating laptop batteries
According to the Xinhua News Agency General Administration of Quality Supervision Inspection Division said that on some brands of notebook computer hp f4812a battery fever may occur, the consumer should pay full attention.
August 15, Dell hp f4809a battery may overheat, there is a potential fire danger, in the United States announced a global recall of about 4.1 million produced by the Sony laptop battery Dell. August 25, the United States because of Apple's the same reason in the world to recall 1.8 million Sony laptop computers manufactured by Apple battery.
It is reported that in the above-mentioned incident, the General Administration of Quality Supervision of the development of a high degree of concern about the situation, an emergency meeting with the manufacturers of the cause of the accident and analysis of the understanding. Preliminary view that the incident was due to Sony hp f4486b battery in the production process of the core metal particles mixed with the internal, and notebook computers with the system architecture and use of the environment.
To ensure user safety and property safety of consumers, the State General Administration of Quality Supervision to remind consumers to use the notebook computer, notebook computer should pay due attention to the situation of the hp f2024b battery temperature. Once overheated, the system can be shut down, remove the battery, and then through the power adapter and power cord is connected to an external power supply to your system. In case of overheating, explosion, fire, etc., they must immediately contact the relevant manufacturers and report on local quality inspection hp f2024a battery departments.